Bloggers and columnists are reacting to World Bank president Robert Zoellick’s April 2 speech[6]. Mike Burnick’s Global Market Beat[7] says “What we’re seeing now is nothing short of a full-scale global power struggle to secure valuable food resources, which grow scarcer each year. Rice for example is the staple food for about 3 billion of the world’s people, mostly in poorer, developing nations. Since 2005, the prices of food staples (including rice) have soared 80%. This is triggering sharp inflation spikes throughout the developing world – which in turn has sparked troubling social unrest. Consumer prices in China rose 8.7% in February to an 11-year high. Inflation in India is at a 13-month peak.” In Friday’s post[8] Dani Rodrik and his readers debated Zoellick’s address, and David Ignatius devoted his column on WP.com to Perils in the Price of Rice[9].